Thank You! Thank You! Ran it in a root terminal and rebooted. Looking great now.

Monsta wrote:Thinking out loud about what I've just read when I followed GeneC's links...

1. Reconfiguring fontconfig-config just changes a few symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d to point to the appropriate (depending on what has been chosen during the reconfiguration) files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.2. Ubuntu's fontconfig-config package has additional symlinks which are missing in Debian's one. For example, 11-lcdfilter-default.conf. Look at the file list and see for yourself.3. I suspect that setting things in ~/.fonts.conf works only if there is the respective symlink in /etc/fonts/conf.d. For example, the lcdfilter option won't do anything unless you have /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf pointing to ../conf.avail/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf. This is just my speculation, please correct me if I'm wrong.

So here's what I've done. I didn't reconfigure fontconfig-config, didn't install Ubuntu's version of it, didn't even create and edit ~/.fonts.conf.Just made a little script that makes all the missing symlinks (I hope I didn't miss any of them myself) and ran it as root.

Though I have some doubts about some of the fonts (not all of them) in Firefox. And I don't use Chrome.Moreover, my eyes are quite tired from today's tinkering with all this font stuff, so I may have missed something. Just test this script please and see if it works for you.

Out of curiosity, I've installed Chrome in my virtual LMDE machine and saw the fonts aren't that bad. Maybe a little worse than in Firefox. What's looking equally bad in both browsers is some bold fonts, e.g. the top menu bar on google's main page.

You can try what GeneC said, i.e. editing ~/.fonts.conf (and maybe even ~/.Xdefaults - I really don't know what settings Chrome may look at ).It didn't do any good for me though, the fonts are looking the same as they were after I've applied my script.

Though I have some doubts about some of the fonts (not all of them) in Firefox. And I don't use Chrome.Moreover, my eyes are quite tired from today's tinkering with all this font stuff, so I may have missed something. Just test this script please and see if it works for you.

Thanks a million, Monsta. Worked very well.

By way of background I updated to update 5 today and made the mistake of installing some new versions, against the advice of the release notes:

Always choose "keep file" (as opposed to "install new version")

Anyhow, perhaps as a result, the fonts were horrible in Chromium. Monsta's script appears to have restored them.

Out of interest, my Terminal application also displayed black on black, ie, invisible. I've opened a new post on that - viewtopic.php?f=198&t=113073